Abstract: Crop pest is an important biological disaster in agricultural production in China, which has become one of the key factors limiting the sustainable development of high yield, good quality and high efficient agriculture. This paper gave a review on the roles of integrated control techniques in crop pest disaster reduction in the past decade. China is facing several serious challenges in crop pest control, such as continuous pest occurrence, less developed key control techniques, poor forecasting techniques and weak basic researches, etc., and strategies and approaches to continuously control crop pest disaster are given as follows: to increase research input; to explore disaster causes and regulations; to study mid-term and long-term forecast methods; to develop key techniques of integrated control; to pay more attentions to applied research of high-technology, etc.

Key words: Crop plants, Biological disaster, Integrated control, Disaster-reducing technique, Strategy analysis